NGC 7178
NGC 7178
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
440 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
150k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 440 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7178 as it looked roughly 440 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 7279Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 7299Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 5209Spiral54 million ly
apartNGC 7289Lenticular60 million ly
apartNGC 7268 NED01Lenticular62 million ly
apartIC 5212Barred spiral63 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7299Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 5209Spiral54 million ly
apartNGC 7289Lenticular60 million ly
apartNGC 7268 NED01Lenticular62 million ly
apartIC 5212Barred spiral63 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).